Yeah strings are ugly and programmatically impure -- they are an extension of human language after all -- but virtually all human facing apps use tons of them f

Yeah strings are ugly and programmatically impure -- they are an extension of human language after all -- but virtually all human facing apps use tons of them for obvious reasons. Same goes for regex. IMO they are a great example of how Golang is a pragmatic rather than "clever" or "pure" programming language.